Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #256; 2024-11-17)

This short report brings to light some interesting commits to scylladb.git master from the last week. Commits in the 961a53f716…f23800181a range are covered.

There were 71 non-merge commits from 16 authors in that period. Some notable commits:


Repair performance in mixed-shard configurations (where different nodes have different shard counts) has been improved.

The tarball distribution no longer packages the Java-based tools, just like rpm and deb.

The S3 driver is now able to retry failed requests.

The DESC TABLE statement will now reject materialized views.

The SPLIT compaction type, used to divide tablets into smaller tablets, now uses a better estimate for the partition count of new sstables, leading to better sized bloom filters.

The sstable reader now frees memory more quickly, reducing memory requirements.


See you in the next issue of last week in scylladb.git master!